Pathfinder adventures meet GURPS rules.

Session 22

Garrion: we can get started once the clan arrives… sef going to make it this time? he losing out on lots of XP

Tabris: No idea, haven’t talked to him much lately

Cedric has connected.

Tabris: I’m on 30 hours of overtime for this pay period so I haven’t really been paying much attention to whatever he’s been up to

Tabris: And I get to go in again tomorrow at 6 AM for more

Garrion: wow, at least get a big check, or you said you were salary?

Tabris: Yeah, I’m salaried

Tabris: It’s all “for the good of the company”

Garrion: well that blows ass

Tabris: Yeah, my boss said something about looking into paid overtime for us today, I hope they can work something out

Garrion: personal rule… never opt for salary. it looks good at first till you get the big screw

Tabris: After tomorrow I’ll have basically worked 3 weeks of work in the course of 2 weeks

Tabris: Yeah I’ve been asking for a raise for the past two years now, lol

Tabris: If they don’t give it to me after this bullshit then I’m walking

Garrion: as lomng as you have something else lined up i hope

Tabris: At some point I’m going to start looking, heh

Tabris: It’s already been recommended to me that I get something I can present that shows that I could get X salary if I go to work for someone else

Taragnor: yeah, I don’t blame ya.

Taragnor: I mean tons of extra hours with no extra pay is a bunch of crap

Tabris: Yeah, I mean on the one hand it’s not really the norm since this is still in response to the crap that happened back in December

Tabris: But on the other hand it’s been fucking 3 months now and I’m tired of this shit, lol

Taragnor: yeah, can’t blame ya for that. I mean thgey been dicking you around

Tabris: Yeah

Sachi has connected.

Tabris: It’s pissing me off too because they’ve outright ignored several of my recommendations, and then shit happens and it turns out that if they’d listened to me it wouldn’t have been a problem

Sachi: Hihi!

Tabris: They came up with some bullshit idea recently and I’ve basically refused to work on it because I don’t agree with it and I told them as much, so now they’re going to gather test data to try to validate it or not

Tabris: Hey Sachi~

Urso: hey

Tabris: Also yesterday I cracked my head open on some scaffolding and had to get 8 stitches, lol

Tabris: And I can’t even take time off for that shit

Tabris: Because they’re relying on me for all this other shit

Urso: next time duck

Sachi: T_T

Garrion: well look’s like most the clan is here. just need tristan and maybe sef

Sachi: I keep telling Sef I can fix him now

Tabris: Yeah who knows what he’s up to

Garrion: he not been around for other games either?

Garrion: he said something about T killing him and needing a new character

Tabris: Nope

Tabris: Yeah that was like… what, two months ago?

Tabris: He’s still working on the new character, lol

Taragnor: yeah… I don’t know what Sef’s been up to honestly. He’s just been really lazy with doing anything

Garrion: oh well, Melty can heal her whenever she wants and we’ll just have Mina hang out at the resistance hideout till further notice. can be your research person

Sachi: He’s been having a rough time I think

Garrion: as soon as tristan shows up we’ll start off with our encounter we touched on last time

Garrion: hopefully you all can get your prizes and return to Loryc… he will be 10 years older though due to the different time rate there though, haha ;)

Mina: “You’ll wake up in a sewer balls deep in some toothless bum’s mouth.”

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “Tch…”

Melty: “I thought the thing about the tavern girls was just a rumor…”

Garrion: the door opens…..

Urso: " door ok?"

Melty: “Far as I can tell.”

Garrion: A wooden stairway, its risers carpeted in fine silk and its banisters carved of darkwood, descends into a lake of bubbling filth and olive-green sludge in this cavern. At the far side of the cavern, three natural stone steps rise up from the slime to a chamber of worked stone, its floor stained and slathered with strings of dried ooze and mounds of filth.

Zindal (aka Ladzin) decides to let Urso take the lead just in case

Urso looks in, and if seem safe will step in.

Mina: “Remember, pillars are not the enemy.”

Mina: “Just in case.” she whispers

Tristan (Stan): “I hope this is not where the city gets it’s water”

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “Wouldn’t surprise me.”

Melty: “Gross. How come humans don’t have wings?”

Garrion: the ooze in this room seems very similar to that in the other room you encountered

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “Clearly a major design flaw.”

Melty: “Smells like fuckin’ death took a shit in here.”

Mina: “Better question is, why is this place so finely decorated, yet ends in a pile of sludge?”

Mina: “Look at the silk and bannisters, yet it leads into a cesspool?”

Tristan (Stan): *tristan laughs out loud and death taking a shit

Urso: (the stuff that melty flew over?)

Zindal (aka Ladzin): (Yeah, I think that’s what he’s saying)

Garrion: yep

Tristan (Stan): “or Urso taking a shit”

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “Maybe there’s a leak into this room from that giant lake of filth we saw?”

Tristan (Stan): “sorry Urso but your nasty”

Urso: (ooze everywhere covering everything or no?)

Melty: “There was another room back there full of corpse juice or somethin’.”

Garrion: the stench in here is not nearly as bad as the other area though

Melty: “You were pretty out of it then.”

Zindal (aka Ladzin): It sounds like the room basically goes down to a low point before rising up again

Zindal (aka Ladzin): And the low point is full of ooze

Mina: “Yeah it’ll tend to do that to a girl.”

Garrion: correct

Urso steps in some, trying not too step into any pools or puddles of ooze.

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “They never install floor drains in these rooms for some reason…”

Garrion: you can not tell if this was an original design or something that happened later on

Tristan (Stan): “could be clogged”

Melty: “You wouldn’t need ’em if you had wings.”

Zindal (aka Ladzin) keeps his sword out, ready for trouble

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “There are supposed to be guardians. Be watchful.”

Mina climbs down the stairs, to get a better look with the others up front.

Melty: Yeah, I’m starting to think I wanna get more spells and energy before I get another “specialty school”

Tristan (Stan): does it take damage when she parries?

Tristan (Stan): it’s attacking with an arm right?

Mina bats aside the sludge with the flat of her nodachi.

Garrion: yes, but minimal damage and won;t get past DR

Urso: (na, so long as you have I think like 3 natural dr you don’t take damage from parries )

Garrion: i think it is 1d6

Mina: bad form to parry with the edge of your japanese swords

Mina: :-p

Zindal (aka Ladzin) has received initiative.

Zindal (aka Ladzin): So what are the stats on this Scimitar I found? Is it Fine or Finely Balanced? And does Mithral count as Silver for DR purposes? Also according to Martial Arts a Scimitar can be either statted as a Shortsword if it’s light, a Cavalry Saber if it’s heavy, or a Thrusting Broadsword if it’s steeply curved

Tristan (Stan): cool

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Fine, Very Fine, or Balanced are the quality categories actually

Garrion: hmm, hadn’t looked up all the variables

Garrion: mithril is not silver unless the book says so

Mina: hmm yeah they dont have mithral in the DF book

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Well it is in PF I think

Mina: prolly be elven

Mina: equivalency

Mina: since armor does same

Mina: thatd prolly what id say it uses

Garrion: let me scan

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Elven for weapon only applies to bow

Mina: yeah i see that just now

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Just trying to figure out if I should try out the shiny new sword or stick with old reliable, heh

Urso: (heh, well you know your old one is plain.. it definently won’t help.. the new one might )

Mina: that was Ts house rules in regards to mithril being silver for DR

Zindal (aka Ladzin): I’d like it to be a Thrusting Broadsword personally, since I get impale damage with that

Mina: tho may be diff in PF

Mina: i know in our D&D games we house ruled it

Zindal (aka Ladzin): I’m pretty sure it’s official in PF

Mina: yeah my sword was actually pose to be silvered, i just never got around to statting it up lol

Mina: ie for all the vampire slaying

Urso: ( well Durin in Battle of 5 armies called it silvered metal.. heh)

Garrion: from PF….

Garrion: Weapons or armors fashioned from mithral are always masterwork items as well; the masterwork cost is included in the prices given below.

Garrion: An item made from mithral weighs half as much as the same item made from other metals. In the case of weapons, this lighter weight does not change a weapon’s size category or the ease with which it can be wielded (whether it is light, one-handed, or two-handed).

Garrion: Mithral weapons count as silver for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Garrion: Scimitar – Asia. A blanket term for a curved, one-handed slashing sword from Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Middle East, or South Asia, such as the kiljic (Ottoman Empire), podang (Indonesia), shamshir (Persia), shasqa (Russia), talwar or tulwar (India), or yataghan (Turkey). A light one is a SHORTSWORD (pp. 69, B273); a heavier one is a CAVALRYSABER (pp. 66, B271) if steeply curved, a THRUSTINGBROADSWORD (pp. 65, B271) otherwise. A curved chopping sword, also common in these parts, is a FALCHION (p. 69) or a LARGEFALCHION (p. 65).

Garrion: ok, you convinced me… 1 is a longsword the other is a greataxe

Garrion: and it wielding it 1’handed

Garrion: that give you idea of ST

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Haha

Urso: (one handed , probably be a throwing axe? hehe)

Garrion: greataxe

Melty: ←rolls Air Spells and gets 9 vs. Skill (20 with a modifier of -2)

Melty SUCCEEDS by 9

Garrion: melty casts her spell

Melty:
←Attacks Outcast King with a Projectile
in the torso
←Rolls 11 vs. Skill 13 (15 with a modifier of -2)

Melty SUCCEEDS by 2

0 for torso, 0 for maneuver, 0 shock, -2 range, 0 miscMod, 0 accMod

Urso: nice

Outcast King: tries to dodge and rolls a 12 with effective skill 8

Outcast King FAILS by 4

Urso: even better

Garrion: magic resistance….

Melty: “rrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

Zindal (aka Ladzin): lol damn, it has SR

Melty gives a tiny war cry as she brandishes her wand, firing a lightning bolt…

Tristan (Stan): lol

Melty: (I’m not sure it works against missile spells)

Garrion: looking now

Urso: (monster magic resistance work like Urso’s or better?)

Garrion: Magic Resistance only interferes with spells cast directly on you. It provides no benefit against Missile spells (which are cast on the wizard’s hand and hurled at you), attacks by magic weapons, or informationgathering spells that aren’t cast directly on you. It also has no effect on supernatural powers other than magic; e.g., divine miracles, psionics, or the innate powers of spirits.

Urso: heh, guess it has no effect here

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Nice

Melty: receives -2 fatigue, and now has 7 FP.

Tristan (Stan): very nice indeed

Melty: Damage: 20

Urso: if its like Urso’s.. then you get whatever the bonus is a negative to initiate your spell success, and the same as a bonus to saves… not sure if monster work the same way or no

Zindal (aka Ladzin) hacks at the thing a few times to make sure it’s dead

Mina is more concerned with cleaning her sword properly, as she lets the others play hackfest on the nearly departed, wiping her blade down with a strip of cloth before lovingly placing it back in its scabbard.

Garrion: you can not quite determine the axe but the sword is a fine piece

Garrion: once you clean the muck off a bit

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “Now this is a fine blade… Certainly not fit for a creature like that.”

Zindal (aka Ladzin) hangs it onto his belt next to his other swords

Tristan (Stan): “you seem to be collecting a lot of fine blades these days”

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “Indeed… I suppose I’ll have to choose which one to keep in the end.”

Tristan (Stan): “which ever one you put in your end is your business”

Garrion: i thought you had a bond?

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Yeah, you can change that though I thought?

Melty: noooooooooo it’s fused with your SOUL

Tristan (Stan): I think it just means that your used to it

Tristan (Stan): “had this bow for years” kind of things

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Well it says if the old one is lost or destroyed you can set a new bond

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Does that count if I sell it? lol

Garrion: lol… so let’s getthis straight.. zindal is carrying a big red crystal glaive across his back, 2 longswords and a greataxe….

Mina: lol

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Heh well I ain’t carrying the greataxe

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Mina can take that one up to Urso

Garrion: ok, so 2 locked chests and piles across the floor

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “Shall we see what’s in those chests?”

Melty rubs her tiny hands together.

Tristan (Stan): “not carring enough yet?”

Garrion: -10 to skill roll to pick locks due to quality

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “If you want to carry something, Tristan, you’re free to come down here and get it.”

Zindal (aka Ladzin) smiles up at him

Tristan (Stan): “but your doing such a great job Zin! plus it will help fill out those skinny legs of yours”

Melty casts Locksmith and gets her tools out…

Melty: ←rolls Most Spells and gets 12 vs. Skill (16 with a modifier of -1)

Melty SUCCEEDS by 3

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “I hope you’re not expecting to sit back and reap the rewards without putting in the work? Maybe you put a few pins in the pincushion, but I don’t see why I should hand over treasure to someone who isn’t willing to claim it for himself…”

Garrion: Inside one chest are several pounds of long-outdated investment papers, lists of debts, and various notes on blackmail victims—while once totaling nearly 120,000 gp in value, these papers are now worthless thanks to the passage of time and the deaths of most involved. Of greater value are this chest’s other contents, including several valuable books.

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “What the hell is this…? Useless scraps of paper and old books?”

Garrion: These books include an early Andoren philosophy book worth ?, an illustrated scenic journey through Osirion worth ?, a three-volume work on the teachings of a spirit naga entitled the Libra Malfactum worth ?, and a spellbook

Garrion: Under the books is a layer of 1,300 gp, along with a narrow ivory box with a carved lid depicting an army of golems destroying a city wall. The box is worth ?, and it contains a pendant of some sort and a wand.

Melty wads up a useless paper and throws it in Urso’s general direction.

Melty: “Poop on that!”

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “This is more like it…”

Zindal (aka Ladzin) grabs the gold and starts shoving it into Urso’s backpack

Urso: (ohh, scarab of golembane I bet )

Tristan (Stan): “my precious”

Tristan (Stan): lol, love the greed thing

Urso uses his big hands to make it go quicker.

Tristan (Stan): *looking around making sure we are not getting ambushed

Zindal (aka Ladzin): lol, the whole reason Zindal agreed to this plan was because he was told there was treasure

Zindal (aka Ladzin): He’s finally found his treasure

Garrion: lol, just picturing this.. wading through this crap all day and finally finding something of worth….

Garrion: then the mad pillage ensues

Garrion: ok, everyone is over at the first chest getting the loot while melty unlocks the second?

Tristan (Stan): i’m standing back waiting for an amubsh

Zindal (aka Ladzin): lol yeah, something like that

Garrion: melty roll PER

Tristan (Stan): *looking down at the leather of the moster wondering if it would make good armor

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Well on that note, I need to get some sleep for work tomorrow

Melty: Aw, night night

Tristan (Stan): that’s a crazy high margin

Garrion: Melty, you sense something strange in the arera but you can not quite place it… just as you pop the lock and the big grin crosses your face.. something snatches you up in its hand and grabs you tightly… you hear an evil whisper “I’ll take that treasurte little one.” and the now visible figure in the dim shadows of the alcove lift sht elid and lifts the object in it out.

Garrion: This strange and baffling object appears as a wooden and metal dodecahedron (similar in shape to a d12) that measures about 6 inches in diameter— each face of the crux is carved with a different rune

Urso: (that what the pathfinders want)

Garrion: ok, we stop here

Garrion: apparently so does someone else and they let you do all the hard work

Melty: “Hey!”

Melty: “Give me back my treasure, you shady fucknugget!”

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Heh, damn

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Whoever that is is totally gonna die next week

Urso: alright, til next time I guess

Tabris is disconnected.

Urso: later all

Melty: (That’s the cliffhanger line we fade out on before the end credits)

Melty: (fucknugget)

Melty: Night everyone~!

Garrion: lol

Garrion: good session

Cedric is disconnected.

Garrion: mina kicked some ass this time

Mina: yeah im dobbing off over here too, thats why i been quiet, think im gonna try and get some sleep and rest my fubar back